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High­lights from The Au­to­bi­og­ra­phy of An­drew Carnegie

jasoncrawford8 Apr 2021 22:03 UTC
92 points
9 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Air Qual­ity and Cognition

chw8 Apr 2021 21:42 UTC
29 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

A Sys­tem For Evolv­ing In­creas­ingly Gen­eral Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence From Cur­rent Technologies

Tsang Chung Shu8 Apr 2021 21:37 UTC
1 point
3 comments11 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 6 - De­bate and Imi­ta­tive Gen­er­al­iza­tion with Beth Barnes

DanielFilan8 Apr 2021 21:20 UTC
26 points
3 comments60 min readLW link

Aging: A Sur­pris­ingly Tractable Problem

Quinn8 Apr 2021 19:25 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Homeo­static Bruce

matejsuchy8 Apr 2021 19:13 UTC
13 points
8 comments10 min readLW link
(matejsuchy.substack.com)

A pos­si­ble prefer­ence algorithm

Stuart_Armstrong8 Apr 2021 18:25 UTC
22 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

If you don’t de­sign for ex­trap­o­la­tion, you’ll ex­trap­o­late poorly—pos­si­bly fatally

Stuart_Armstrong8 Apr 2021 18:10 UTC
17 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

In­sights from “All of Statis­tics”: Statis­ti­cal Inference

Rafael Harth8 Apr 2021 17:49 UTC
8 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

In­sights from “All of Statis­tics”: Probability

Rafael Harth8 Apr 2021 17:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

The Ja­panese Quiz: a Thought Ex­per­i­ment of Statis­ti­cal Epistemology

DanB8 Apr 2021 17:37 UTC
11 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Solv­ing the whole AGI con­trol prob­lem, ver­sion 0.0001

Steven Byrnes8 Apr 2021 15:14 UTC
63 points
7 comments26 min readLW link

[Question] How should I be­have ≥14 days af­ter my first mRNA vac­cine dose but be­fore my sec­ond dose?

dsj8 Apr 2021 6:24 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there any plau­si­ble mechanisms for why tak­ing an mRNA vac­cine might be un­de­sir­able for a young healthy adult?

Mati_Roy8 Apr 2021 1:18 UTC
28 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Perseverance

David Gross8 Apr 2021 0:01 UTC
10 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

Open and Wel­come Thread—April 2021

Raemon7 Apr 2021 21:15 UTC
13 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Another (outer) al­ign­ment failure story

paulfchristiano7 Apr 2021 20:12 UTC
244 points
38 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Which coun­ter­fac­tu­als should an AI fol­low?

Stuart_Armstrong7 Apr 2021 16:47 UTC
19 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] If my pre­vi­ous re­search is wrong, what are my op­tions ?

BB67 Apr 2021 16:44 UTC
50 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter Three Year Retrospective

Rohin Shah7 Apr 2021 14:39 UTC
55 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

2020 pre­dic­tions—Poli­tics, Econ, Tech

Bucky7 Apr 2021 14:10 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Com­pound­ing In­cum­bent Advantage

adaminoue7 Apr 2021 13:40 UTC
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.inoue.today)

I Trained a Neu­ral Net­work to Play Helltaker

lsusr7 Apr 2021 8:24 UTC
34 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Vim

lsusr7 Apr 2021 6:35 UTC
48 points
57 comments18 min readLW link

Cu­ri­ous In­quiry and Ri­gor­ous Training

DirectedEvolution6 Apr 2021 22:38 UTC
20 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

IQ­captcha en­ters beta

ballerburg90056 Apr 2021 21:28 UTC
−1 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Test­ing The Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion Hy­poth­e­sis: Pro­ject Intro

johnswentworth6 Apr 2021 21:24 UTC
168 points
41 comments6 min readLW link1 review

AI or­a­cles on blockchain

Caravaggio6 Apr 2021 20:13 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What will GPT-4 be in­ca­pable of?

Michaël Trazzi6 Apr 2021 19:57 UTC
34 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Reflec­tive Bayesianism

abramdemski6 Apr 2021 19:48 UTC
62 points
27 comments13 min readLW link

Don’t Sell Your Soul

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:02 UTC
65 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Monastery and Throne

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:00 UTC
115 points
42 comments10 min readLW link

There Is No Con­trol Sys­tem For COVID

Mike Harris6 Apr 2021 17:16 UTC
35 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

The Accord

Timothy Underwood6 Apr 2021 15:44 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

March 2021 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern6 Apr 2021 14:06 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Prevent­ing over­charg­ing by prosecutors

ChristianKl6 Apr 2021 11:13 UTC
29 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Our com­pressed perception

pchvykov6 Apr 2021 11:01 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Many Faces of In­fra-Beliefs

Diffractor6 Apr 2021 10:43 UTC
30 points
6 comments63 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a mu-like term that means some­thing like “why is this any of my busi­ness?”

CraigMichael6 Apr 2021 7:47 UTC
5 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to A Crack­pot Physics

ACrackedPot5 Apr 2021 23:59 UTC
−4 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

I’m from a par­allel Earth with much higher co­or­di­na­tion: AMA

Ben Pace and Eliezer Yudkowsky
5 Apr 2021 22:09 UTC
172 points
35 comments61 min readLW link1 review

Risk Bud­gets vs. Ba­sic De­ci­sion Theory

Vlad Firoiu5 Apr 2021 21:55 UTC
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

His­tor­i­cal Ex­am­ples of Op­po­si­tion to Tech­nolog­i­cal Progress

chw5 Apr 2021 21:26 UTC
18 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Noise Pol­lu­tion and Cognition

chw5 Apr 2021 21:26 UTC
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Avert­ing suffer­ing with sen­tience throt­tlers (pro­posal)

Quinn5 Apr 2021 10:54 UTC
8 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Ranked Choice Vot­ing is Ar­bi­trar­ily Bad

AppliedDivinityStudies5 Apr 2021 6:44 UTC
10 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

The in­no­cent gene

Joe Carlsmith5 Apr 2021 3:31 UTC
39 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread – April 2021

niplav4 Apr 2021 19:25 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What do you think would be the best in­vest­ment policy for a cry­on­ics trust?

Mati_Roy4 Apr 2021 19:20 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

About Me: Back­ground and Biases

tkpwaeub4 Apr 2021 14:19 UTC
19 points
1 comment1 min readLW link